Sexuality

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Sexuality: The condition of being characterized and distinguished by sex. But how is ones sexuality developed? Does anyone know? In today’s society we have our “normal” sex they call, heterosexuals and the people some don’t understand, “homosexuals”. So now I ask myself are people born as heterosexuals and homosexuals or is it something that we just choose as we grow up. Many psychologists have put humans to the study to figure out how and why our sexuality is developed. Sigmund Freud, best known for his contributions in the field of therapy have developed his theory for human personality and sexuality. He was one of the first Westerners to recognize and work with unconscious processes and he also brought about the id, ego, and superego.
Freud didn’t exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus the unconscious mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular. The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might today call “available memory:” anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring to mind. Now no-one has a problem with these two layers of mind. But Freud suggested that these are the smallest parts. The largest part by far is the unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness, including many things that have their origins there, such as our drive or instincts, and things that are put there because we cant bear to look at them, such as memories and emotions associated with trauma. According to Freud, the unconscious is the source of our motivations, whether they are simple desires for food or sex, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to deny or resist becoming cons...